Trial Begins for Turkish Cartoonist Musa Kart

Jude Terror in Bleeding Cool.

This cartoon by Cumhuriyet cartoonist Musa Kart led to an 2014 arrest.
It shows Edrogan looking the other way from a money laundering scheme inside the government.

Last November, journalists from Turkey’s opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet were arrested as part of a political crackdown by the Turkish government responding to a failed coup that almost ousted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the previous July.

50 years of Aislin

Every Monday in 2017, the Montreal Gazette features an Aislin cartoon drawn over the past 50 years, with a backstory for each.

This cartoon from 1981shows Pierre Elliott Trudeau planting the Canadian Constitution.

Daily Funnies: An Exhibition of Strip Cartoons

From the Cartoon Museum.

Cartoon by Steven Appleby

"Daily Funnies: An Exhibition of Strip Cartoons" will open to the public on July 25th..

The exhibition will feature examples of many well-known cartoon strips from British newspapers and magazines from the past 100 years. 

The AAEC condemns the firing of editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson

The Board of Directors of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has released a statement on Nick Anderson and his firing by the Houston Chronicle and Hearst Communications:

The CPERB vs. Annie Leibovitz

Leah Sandals in Canadian Art.

Merryl Streep by Annie Leibovitz

Reports this week of the latest financial problem for American photographer Annie Leibovitz—who in 2009 nearly had to file for bankruptcy and in 2010 was sued by a company who says it was unpaid for helping to restructure her debt—have unexpectedly placed a spotlight on a little-known Canadian group called the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board.

Oleg Dergachov joins cartoon team at the Montreal Gazette

From The Montreal Gazette.

Oleg Dergachov's first cartoon for the Montreal Gazette appears today.

He will share cartooning duties with Aislin, Boris, Nicole Fisher, Gigot, Grooch and Frederic Serre.

"Blitt"

Riverhead Books will publish this October a long-awaited collection of Barry Blitt's work including many never before seen cartoons, sketches and drafts.